Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything.
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton
"The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions" --G K Chesterton
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling

"...when heard in the context of the whole show, Obama’s position is distinctly misrepresented by the You Tube posting. Taken in context, Obama is evaluating the historical successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement—and, ironically, he says the Supreme Court was a failure in cases that it took on a role of redistributing resources."

This is itself a misrepresentation, and a severe one. Obama does indeed thoughtfully describe the historical success and failures of the Civil Rights movement, but he most certainly does NOT repudiate redistribution...He only notes that redistribution was unwieldy to achieve in the courts and is a bad idea there because of structural problems (47:00). Aside from that he feels redistribution is fine

That's precisely the sense of the edited version easily available on the 'net.

Obama's line of thinking was that 'we should do redistribution'--and that the Constitution, as written, doesn't allow for that too easily, nor should the Courts direct such an effort.

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10-28-08Beijing, China Unassociated Fictional Press

The Government of The Peoples Republic of China has unanimouslyendorsed McCain/Palin for President of the United States.

"They are our kind of leaders!" says a Government spokesperson."They understand that business and the government should be in control,not the silly workers, or 'people' as they sometimes call themselves.Also, we understand the Republic concept. It is Democracy we finddistasteful."

A leading General, who wished to remain anonymous, had this to sayabout President McCain: "We planted many post-hypnotic suggestionsin our former P.O.W.'s mind and we are beside ourselves with anticipation at having the opportunity to trigger them and have controlof the white house without even having to wage a war..."

"And if that fails," a second anonymous official pipes in "it's not likeGeorge W. Bush did not already sell it to us anyway."

P.S. We sure hope that Sarah Palin and her corrupt comrade Ted Stevens dream ofa free Alaska comes true someday so we can do serious business.